Medicine: Question: Who Will Play God?

The words seemed calculated to provoke an uproar. Elderly people who are
terminally ill "have a duty to die," declared Colorado Governor Richard
Lamm, 48, at a meeting of the Colorado Health Lawyers Association last
week in Denver. "Like leaves which fall off a tree forming the humus in
which other plants can grow, we've got a duty to die and get out of the
way with all of our machines and artificial hearts, so that our kids
can build a reasonable life."